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Wow, he’s not even bothering to fix his typos anymore. This is from Saturday.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837996746236182529
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So basically to you have two systems because your government is in a spat with the political parties. nice.
Not the government. Elected officials are squarely on the side of the parties (that’s who they are). Ballot initiatives bypass the legislature and the governor here. This one was written, I believe, by the state Grange. So it’d be pretty fairly described as a spat between the state parties and the state population.
Wow, he’s not even bothering to fix his typos anymore. This is from Saturday.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/837996746236182529
WE’RE #7!!! WE’RE #7!!!
Here’s some fun tidbits.
Among the 21,000 surveyed, 75% said they lost some respect for U.S. leadership after the 2016 presidential election.
The United States ranked lower than past years across multiple categories, including best for business, citizenship, adventure tourism, education, transparency and headquartering a corporation. However, the country remained No. 1 on the list of most powerful countries closely followed by Russia and China.
Nearly 90% of global survey respondents outside of the U.S. said that they paid attention to the 2016 U.S. election. Hillary Clinton would have won the global election, with nearly 60% of the global vote. Support for Donald Trump was highest in Russia (83%) and in China (54%).
Interesting article from the first ever EPA head, who returned to the job a few years into Reagan’s term.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/opinion/a-lesson-trump-and-the-epa-should-heed.html?_r=0
So basically to you have two systems because your government is in a spat with the political parties. nice.
Not the government. Elected officials are squarely on the side of the parties (that’s who they are). Ballot initiatives bypass the legislature and the governor here. This one was written, I believe, by the state Grange. So it’d be pretty fairly described as a spat between the state parties and the state population.
state Grange?
So basically to you have two systems because your government is in a spat with the political parties. nice.
Not the government. Elected officials are squarely on the side of the parties (that’s who they are). Ballot initiatives bypass the legislature and the governor here. This one was written, I believe, by the state Grange. So it’d be pretty fairly described as a spat between the state parties and the state population.
state Grange?
Never particularly heard of them either until they ran the initiative:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Grange_of_the_Order_of_Patrons_of_Husbandry
Also, this is a bit of a western state phenomenon too. Out here, a guy and thirty friends can get an initiative on the ballot (slight exaggeration). It’s super-easy, which is good when you’re dealing with an issue that every state elected official from both parties violently opposes such as open primaries. But it’s bad in the sense that we get SEVERAL “free ponies for everyone” initiatives every year, which end up in the courts or ignored or whatever. i.e. we get initiatives to cut taxes or improve education without any indication of how to pay for them, and those are treated more like political statements than actual law.
EDIT: Found a reference to the court case:
The WP’s Daily 202 is becoming my favorite place to get a good rundown of what happened the previous day (despite the Vox-like bolding of lots of stuff).
I wonder if Trump still loves Wikileaks.
Fucking poor people, too lazy to get a job and afford health care coverage.
Chaffetz also addressed growing concerns over healthcare costs during the interview Tuesday, saying low-income Americans must make tough choices and sacrifice luxuries in order to pay for coverage.
“Maybe rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and want to go spend hundreds of dollars on, maybe they should go and invest in their own healthcare,” he said.
What a maroon!
Where were you in '77?
It turns out healthcare legislation is really, really hard…and the current GOP version sounds DOA.
Where is that picture from?
This is going to turn into an episode of Night Gallery isn’t it? 😉
Where were you in '77?
I bet they were surprised… Trump actually being at the White House.
VIZ TOP TIPS! - PARENTS. Impress your children by showing them a floppy disk and telling them it’s a 3D model of a save icon.
Good thing I wasn’t with them. They would have had to arrest me for spitting on the so called President.
I know, it’s Salon, yadda yadda.
so called President.
You mean the President?
The Person in Question
so called President.
You mean the President?
Well, when the so-called President calls other people “so-called” he should expect the same.
More proof that the travel ban isn’t about keeping our country safe, it’s about xenophobia, full stop.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-coast-guard-budget-235750
The Trump administration wants to gut the Coast Guard and make deep cuts in airport and rail security to help pay for its crackdown on illegal immigration, according to internal budget documents reviewed by POLITICO — a move that lawmakers and security experts say defies logic if the White House is serious about defending against terrorism and keeping out undocumented foreigners.
The Office of Management and Budget is seeking a 14 percent cut to the Coast Guard’s $9.1 billion budget, the draft documents show, even as it proposes major increases to other Department of Homeland Security agencies to hire more border agents and immigration officers and construct a physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The budget numbers mark the most detailed breakdown yet about how President Donald Trump envisions restructuring DHS to meet his pledge to halt illegal immigration and deport some of the millions already here.
Overall, DHS would get a 6 percent boost to its budget, to $43.8 billion. But to help pay for that, the administration would slice the budget of the Coast Guard and cut 11 percent in spending from the TSA — reductions that critics say would weaken safeguards against threats arriving by sea or air.
OMB also wants to cut 11 percent from the budget of FEMA, which oversees the national response to disasters such as floods and hurricanes.
so called President.
You mean the President?
Well, when the so-called President calls other people “so-called” he should expect the same.
exactly.
Wikileaks: CIA has tools to snoop via TVs
Other claims say the CIA:
- was trying to find ways to infect vehicles’ computer control systems. Wikileaks claims these might *have been used for undetectable assassinations
- had found ways to infect “air-gapped” computers - machines that are not linked up to the internet or other insecure networks. Methods are said to have included hiding data in images or hidden parts of computer storage
- had developed attacks against popular anti-virus products
- had built up a library of hacking techniques “stolen” from malware developed in Russia and elsewhere
Wikileaks describes its release as the first in a series of planned leaks about the CIA’s cyber-activities, which it refers to as Vault 7.
It added that the material had already circulated among hackers who used to work for the US government as well as contractors in an unauthorised manner.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39193008
Why pick on the Coast Guard? Did they cut him off when he was out partying on his yacht or something? Our coastal waters will look like a remake of The Island* without them!
*The 1980 Michael Caine movie about modern day pirates, not the Michael Bay ripoff of Parts: The Clonus Horror. 😉
Where were you in '77?